The U.S. Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Department of Defense, established in December 2019. Its primary role is to organize, train, and equip space forces to protect U.S. and allied interests in space by ensuring space superiority. The USSF manages space launch operations, satellite operations, space environment surveillance, and satellite defense, and partners with organizations like NASA on space domain awareness and planetary defense. Key areas of focus include missile warning, satellite communications, and positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) services.
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On 2020-02-12, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center selected Northrop Grumman as the first vendor to build a prototype payload under the Protected Tactical Satellite Communications (PTS) program.
The U.S. Space Force was created on 2019-12-20.
Northrop Grumman was awarded a $253,500,000 contract by the U.S. Space Force to develop a cyber-secure communications payload that could be deployed on a military or commercial satellite.
National Guard Bureau officials and adjutants general from five states met with reporters at the Pentagon on 2020-02-12 to advocate establishing a Space National Guard as a reserve component to the U.S. Space Force.
The Pentagon’s 2020-02-03 report to Congress identified an opportunity for the Space Force to design a new human capital management approach tailored to the space mission set and current-generation preferences.
The $15,400,000,000 Space Force budget includes approximately $100,000,000 for war-related satellite services and space operations.
The $15,400,000,000 request excludes about $800,000,000 in personnel costs that remain in the Air Force budget because the Space Force did not yet have a separate accounting system.
The $15,400,000,000 Space Force budget includes $2,400,000,000 for procurement of satellites and launch services, the same amount Congress appropriated in 2020.
The $15,400,000,000 Space Force budget includes $10,300,000,000 for space research, development, testing, and evaluation (RDT&E) of technologies and weapon systems.
The $15,400,000,000 Space Force budget includes $2,600,000,000 for space operations and maintenance, $300,000,000 more than what Congress enacted in 2020.
T.S. Kelso, senior research astrodynamicist at Analytical Graphics Inc., observed that orbital data for Cosmos-2542 is available from the U.S. Space Force 18th Space Control Squadron while comparable orbital data for USA 245 is not publicly provided by the U.S. government and is being supplied by amateur observers.
In the 2021 budget the U.S. Air Force transferred $15,400,000,000 from existing accounts to the U.S. Space Force.
The 2021 defense budget request included $15,400,000,000 for the U.S. Space Force.
The Department of Defense projects the U.S. Space Force headquarters will grow to 1,800 people by fiscal year 2025.
The U.S. Space Force was established 2019-12-20 as an independent service under the Department of the Air Force.
DoD budget documents released 2020-02-10 state that funding related to the National Reconnaissance Office will not transfer to the U.S. Space Force.
The third GPS 3 satellite arrived on 2020-02-05 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida for final testing and checkout.
The study will identify commercial space technologies that the Space Force could utilize and assess potential risks of using commercial systems in armed conflict.
The goal of the study is to speed up the modernization of space capabilities in the Space Force.
Maj. Gen. William Liquori's office is now part of the U.S. Space Force.